Pennsylvania Economic Associatio

PEA

Pennsylvania Economic Association

2010 Conference

Hosted by

Grove City College

Conference Program

THURSDAY, June 3

4:00 pm - 9:00 pm Registration (Atrium of the Hall of Arts and Letters)
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Board of Director's Dinner/Meeting
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Reception (Great Room of the Student Union)

FRIDAY, June 4

(Location: Hall of Arts and Letters)

8:00 am - 4:30 pm Registration (Atrium)
8:30 am - 10:30am Coffee Break
9:00 am - 10:15 am Concurrent Sessions
10:15 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - 11:45 pm Concurrent Sessions
12 noon - 1:15 pm Luncheon
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Speaker: Richard K. Vedder, The Independent Institute
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Coffee Break
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm Fed Roundtable (Sticht Auditorium)
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Reception

SATURDAY, June 5

(Location: Hall of Arts and Letters)

8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration & Coffee (Atrium)
9:00 am - 10:15 am Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am -11:00 am General Membership Meeting (Sticht Auditorium)
11:15 am Closing

Lunch Speaker

Richard K. Vedder, Ph.D.

Dr. Vedder is Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute and Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics and Faculty Associate, Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University. Professor Vedder is co-author (with Lowell Gallaway) of The Independent Institute book, Out of Work, the recipient of both the 1994 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award and 1994 Mencken Award Finalist for Best Book, and the Institute monograph, Can Teachers Own Their Own Schools? Professor Vedder received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois, and he has been Senior Economist at the U.S. Joint Economic Committee and Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of American Business, Washington University, and he has taught at the University of Colorado, Claremont Men’s College, and MARA Institute of Technology. His other books include Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much, The American Economy in Historical Perspective; Poverty, Income Distribution, the Family and Public Policy (with L. Gallaway); Essays in Nineteenth Century Economic History; Essays in the Economy of the Old Northwest; Economic Impact of Government Spending: A Fifty State Analysis, and Variations in Business and Economic History. His hundreds of articles and reviews have appeared in numerous scholarly journals as well as such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, National Review, Washington Times, and Investor’s Business Daily.

[This information is provided by The Independent Institute.]

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